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That's ironic, because PubG was miles better optimized and looking than DayZ Standalone or the mod.
funnier still, Fortnite initially was piggy-backing off DayZ the zombie survival formula ...
I've been a fan of the "battlegrounds" gameplay mode since I played on Arma 2 Battle Royale servers back in 2012. I'm really glad they became mainstream enough for me to start sucking at them.
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Of course they loose some money on the gift cards, but I highly doubt it's anywhere close to 18% of the value for most retailers. I was not able to find a public source on any numbers here, but I asked a friend working at a large 8-letter games store and he mentioned figures in the range of 5%. Furthermore I am not speaking of the recently launched game store, but the UE Marketplace that sells assets targeted at deve…
Retailers discount Apple iTunes gift cards 20%.
This approach leads me to assume that that either happens in co-operation with Apple, who are eating the extra cost for the special promotion, or the stores are paying out of their marketing budget for a loss leader.
I don't have any experience with the gift card markets in any other country, so things might just be different here. Either way this is all hypotheticals since I still can't find any good hard numbers.
EDIT: Of course you also need to take into account that not all sales in the stores are paid for though gift cards.
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It's really odd to watch people see them as "the Fortnite company" and ignore/discount the Unreal engine, etc.
I actually see them as the ZZT company.
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I’ve given up on searching the App Store, but I’ve had a lot of luck searching the web. This article looks relevant and useful: https://iphonephotographyschool.com/iphone-time-lapse/
IIRC none of those just place the photos in the iPhone gallery. They only give you the finished video. I tried looking into making this myself, but it’s an insane rabbit’s hole of Cocoapod compilation problems and general yak shawing. A kingdom for a bash shell and a few good cli tools..
$3B profit doesn’t really seem consistent with $15B valuation. Tech companies these days seem valued at 20x revenue or more. Why would they bother raising $1.25B at that price? I suppose Fortnite is a fad, so there is a pessimistic case to be made to cash in as much as possible.
You forgot about Unreal engine?
Tim Sweeney often complains about MS being a threat to PC gaming, yet there is still no Fortnite for Linux. Also, Epic store doesn't support Linux (yet?).
I mean come on, it has got to be a business decision. If Gamers were there, they would have made it. How much investment do you expect them to make when only 1% of the world wide Desktop uses linux and possibly less than 10% of that 1% are gamers? I mean Mac Gamers don't complain as much when they have higher market shares.